From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: move regulatory hints to workqueue
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:14:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e890902122314m2966471dm3a9485a91e8e927@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890902122309q61036a23k2efeb14fe3a6e814@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:36 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Driver and userspace regulatory hints are now processed in
>>> a workqueue. This should fix some lockdep warnings which complain
>>> about possible circular locking dependencies such as:
>>
>> Yes, but I need to look at the one Reinette posted and fix that one,
>> which will probably require a different solution.
>
> Oh I didn't see that one. How different?
I see an rtnl lock issue against scanning and the drv mutex. Doesn't
seem to be related to regulatory. So how would that affect a path to
move hints to a workqueue?
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 5:35 [PATCH 0/6] cfg80211: adds a workqueue for regulatory hints Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:35 ` [PATCH 1/6] cfg80211: rename cfg80211_registered_device's idx to wiphy_idx Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:35 ` [PATCH 2/6] cfg80211: add wiphy_idx_valid to check for wiphy_idx sanity Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:36 ` [PATCH 3/6] cfg80211: rename cfg80211_drv_mutex to cfg80211_mutex Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:36 ` [PATCH 4/6] cfg80211: add assert_cfg80211_lock() to ensure proper protection Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] cfg80211: make regulatory_request use wiphy_idx instead of wiphy Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 5:36 ` [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: move regulatory hints to workqueue Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 6:56 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 7:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 7:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-02-13 7:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 7:17 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 7:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 7:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 7:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 8:08 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 8:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 11:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] cfg80211: make regulatory_request use wiphy_idx instead of wiphy Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 18:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 21:24 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 21:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 6:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] cfg80211: add assert_cfg80211_lock() to ensure proper protection Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 7:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 6:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] cfg80211: add wiphy_idx_valid to check for wiphy_idx sanity Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 7:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-02-13 7:18 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-13 9:13 ` [PATCH 0/6] cfg80211: adds a workqueue for regulatory hints Johannes Berg
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